The tweet followed Malik’s appearance at the Asian Awards on Friday (April 18). He picked up the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award and used his acceptance speech to thank God, his parents “for making me Asian” and his former bandmates, stating:

“I’d also like to take this moment to thank four of the best guys that I ever met, everything I’ve done with them will stay with me for the rest of my life. I thank you for that.”

Malik also took to twitter to re-tweet two selfies from the award show. His last tweet was posted over a month ago, following news that he would leave the band. See that tweet below.

I'm 22 years old… I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there's a lot of jealous fucks in this world I'm sorry for what it looks like x